My Wife is thinking about getting one. Yes a Rumba I would be interested in what your thoughts are about these if you do have one. And yes this is a general discussion area of the forum! So please no grief please.
I have the most basic roomba available, cause I want my stuff to be able to work without clouds, maps, gps, internet and the like. It’s basicly a bumper car that sucks.
I like it a lot. You make your room bumper-car friendly, and when you have that, you throw the sucker in and come back later, to find it where it finaly died working. And boy do them suckers clean.
So yeah, they suck.
The only way they are good, is if you use them all the time. Its a tiny vacuum with tiny storage of stuff. Don’t expect Kirby vacuum efficiency.
They need to be disassembled quite often to remove stuff that gets inside the mechanism. There are wheels and axles that get stuff wrapped around them, and the inside needs to be blown out at least.
I can’t see them being used in a pet ridden house, because stuff is so numerous there.
They get tangled up with cords and low-elevation furniture. Ours gets trapped between the legs of kitchen table chairs and stuck under the edges of recliners. The cliff detection won’t let it vacuum small door mats due to their contrasting color.
They can’t find their home unless they are nearby. The recharging station needs to be fixed in place or it will move out of the way.
My wife has recently relegated it to the bedroom where it maintains the carpet stuff and the inevitable dust-bunny stuff under the bed. 
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@CrookedWoodTex Don’t hold back, Tex. Tell us what you really think. 
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Blockquote They need to be disassembled quite often to remove stuff that gets inside the mechanism. There are wheels and axles that get stuff wrapped around them, and the inside needs to be blown out at least.
Neah, You can get roomba replacement sets for a few dimes on ali express. Why clean something if you can replace the whole damn thing with a brand new unit, if you need to dissasamble anyway.
Blockquote I can’t see them being used in a pet ridden house, because stuff is so numerous there.
3 cats and a dog. Given, my 1911 build house is tiny. Your tipical american castle can fit my house 6 times so there’s that for reference. They are called roombas for a reason. One for every room. Buy six and your good.
Blockquote They get tangled up with cords and low-elevation furniture. Ours gets trapped between the legs of kitchen table chairs and stuck under the edges of recliners. The cliff detection won’t let it vacuum small door mats due to their contrasting color.
You have to make your space roomba friendly, no matter what. You don’t need to do much, it will detect its pitfalls for ya and you fix it for the little whirlwind. I even made it a tiny ramp to climb out of the livin into the kitchen. My simple roomba does not look at contrast, it doesn’t care if it fals off a cliff, and if it did, I would teach it not to. No snowflakes in my stairless home.
Blockquote They can’t find their home unless they are nearby. The recharging station needs to be fixed in place or it will move out of the way.
Meh. Just throw the whiner into a room and close the door. It doesn’t need to charge untill its bloody done and it’s done when it bloody can’t go anymore.
Blockquote My wife has recently relegated it to the bedroom where it maintains the carpet stuff and the inevitable dust-bunny stuff under the bed.
Yeah, they get to places no one else goes. Wifes know this.
Somehow.
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LOL You guys are funny. Great feed back. We have one Doggo. He is a Old English Bull Dog. So very short hair. It would help to keep that straight. Thanks for the feed back guys.
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I have a shark one with a base and it cleans my 1,400 sqft shop every day. I love it.
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